LETTER FROM (SOUTH) AMERICA

Friday, 2nd January 2009

This article comes to you from Caracas, Venezuela. It is different from the usual sort of article on this website - but read to the end and see the surprise. Hot Politics Alongside the highways and back streets of Caracas, there is political grafitti everywhere. Some of them are real grafitti... More

NANNY GOES TO EUROPE

Saturday, 20th December 2008

In another nibble around the edges of health policy, the European Commission has produced what it is pleased to call a "White Paper" on future EU policy on public health. It used to be that health and education were just about the only two policy areas left where the EU had not entered. But sadly,... More

WHO CONTROLS FINANCIAL SERVICES?

Saturday, 20th December 2008

Professor Tim Congdon used to be, between 1992 and 1997, an economic advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despite such an establishment position, Professor Congdon agrees with UKIP that Britain needs to disengage from the European Union and pursue an independent future better suited to its... More

POWER AGAINST PEOPLE part 2

Tuesday, 9th December 2008

This is the second in a series of articles taken from the pamphlet "POWER AGAINST PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF THE STATE" by Philip Vander Elst, Oxfordshire UKIP prospective candidate for the 2009 European Elections. The pamphlet was published at the beginning of October by the Institute for... More

THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE - IN BRUSSELS

Monday, 1st December 2008

Amazing that the NHS Confederation now has an office in Brussels! The NHS’s European office was revealed by UKIP MEP Roger Knapman in a letter to the Western Morning News on 23 September. According to the Confederation's website (1) the office was set up to inform NHS organisations of key EU... More

OUR BLOATED STATE

Monday, 1st December 2008

The recently announced Pre-Budget Report (PBR) is but a fairy tale prophesy of the future, based on a best-case scenario. Knowing this Government’s propensity for being unable to tell the truth, is it any wonder that this latest offering will not be believed? It could be argued that Alistair... More

POWER AGAINST PEOPLE part 1

Sunday, 23rd November 2008

This is the first in a series of articles taken from the pamphlet "POWER AGAINST PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF THE STATE" by Philip Vander Elst, Oxfordshire UKIP prospective candidate for the 2009 European Elections. The pamphlet was published at the beginning of October by the Institute for... More

A BETTER WAY TO DEAL WITH OUR WASTE

Sunday, 16th November 2008

The Oxford Times this week reports on the latest extension to the city’s recycling plans. The proposal is to add food waste to the newspapers, tins, plastics and garden waste that are already collected. The problem is that the council just doesn’t have the money to do a weekly collection and so is... More

PAY UP AND DO AS YOU'RE TOLD

Sunday, 2nd November 2008

If you were told that you would have to pay an amount of money to someone, on a regular basis, but did not know on what that money would be spent – would you still do it? It is arguable that probably 99.9% of people would say, most definitely, NO! Yet we, the people, are ‘informed’ that we must... More

MONITORED AND TAXED

Sunday, 2nd November 2008

When asked, most people would think the United Kingdom is a democracy and would consider it ridiculous to suggest otherwise; but stop for one moment and consider the following. On Monday 6th October we have a report that the government has spent £1billion to enable GCHQ to set up a data base... More

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